Still Lacking in Leadership?? Fans set to be Very Disappointed….

Good morning…

I can’t believe Slim Shady claims he was never given the chance to prove himself….. All he did was miss sitters and score once in a blue moon if ever just to remind us what we actually needed….

No wonder he’s happier somewhere without CL football… big fish in a bathtub….

A joke…

Zz.

Morning Rico. I see Nic Entitlement Bendtner is at it again. I read his version. Mine is that he never really stepped up to the plate at Arsenal where he found himself at a club that was just to big for him. What did he ever do that justified the player that, only in his head, he became. The talent he was so willing to big- up never seemed evident to many others. Personally I think it was a perfect example of how confidence can be a bed-fellow of delusion.

We should easily qualify for the last 16 in the CL.

I think the comments about Diaba are unwarranted.
It’s not lack of ability but rather that he has never really recovered from the broken ankle he suffered at Sunderland. He has been very wary of wild challenges (cue all the pundits with “There was nothing malicious in it”.) but hopefully they can get his ankle sorted. If he gets his confidence back he will be a significant figure for us over the next few years. If not then regretably we must move him on to another league were cloggers are not given the same opportunities (cue the pundits with “It’s a man’s game”).

Hi Dominic
We got told by Wenger that both Diaby and Denilson had what it takes ‘to become world class’. Rubbish.

Diaby can look the part against lesser teams and can give what looks like a great performance about twice a year. The other fifty-odd games he’s either shite or injured.

I read somewhere, arseblog I think, that stated Wenger turned down £10M for him from France. If I was Wenger I’d have carried him there on my back.

There’s no point in having a Jaguar if it’s in the garage or not running 85% of the time – you get shut.

Rico – lol
nice one.

Osi – I think Bendtner has gone as far is he could with us.
Like, Diaby – at times he looks the part but most of the time he doesn’t.
His body language tells you it all.
If he was as good as he thought, he’d be playing European football this year, and at 23 he certainly wouldn’t be on loan.

SYG, Arsene said they had the ‘potentiial to be world clas players’ because they were young and talented and everybody could see that they have the skills to be successful, however, to succeed in football you need more than skills. At the end it is up to them to show what they can not Arsene. Arsene only have to support them which he did, but can not give them the determination and the fight necessary to succeed. I don’t agree that Diaby is rubbish; he’s a great player but was unlucky injured all the time. it seems you forget that Diaby had some good performances against teams like ManU, Barcelona Liverpool.

Osi – I remember that winning goal he scored when were were playing Man U up at Old Trafford – A bullet header. Unfortunately it was in our own net.

I remember at the Nou Camp when we were 1-0 up and we had a three on two breakaway and he held on to the ball far too long before making a bum decision to play in the wrong forward.

Rico I think the clubs rate him but they didn’t want to pay £10 or £9ml for him, which is reported to be Arsenal asking price. Does he worth that amount? I think yes because he’s better than many players who were bought for similar amount.

bendtner – remember that sitter his missed at the end against barca
diaby – that sending off at newcastle
need i say more

Is sending off a trait of Diaby? I think you have to remember that Viera was the most sent off player in Arsenal or even football history. What Diaby was sent off for was similar to what the thug called Barton got away with against us this year?

Somebody put me out of my misery! I fucking hate this interlull. It came at the wrong time…..why not before the debacle at Old toilet or before the pool game. I hate this we finally get a semblance of a great team in the making and then “BAM” the fucking interlull rears its ugly head. I wanna see Santos play so bad! God in heaven grant me patience. Am done with my moaning…..morning good people.

Rico these were just rumours? I don’t think Arsene could have turned down some millions for Chamakh because I think Arsene don’t trust chamakh anymore otherwise he could have given him some playing time. Diaby off? I don’t think so. I think people remember just his bad performances but the guy is, apart from being injured, performed reasonably well last when he played, and the year before that. He’s still recovering mentally and physically from the injury. Arsene once said that Diaby’s knew is ‘looking the other way’ something in that sense, I don’t remember the exact quote but he said some he’s very wrong with his knew and consequently he couldn’t performed. That was before his last injury; it was at the start of last season.

Ah finally myself and Niki B agree on something! Happy to hear he doesn’t want back. Now if only we could convince Denilson the same…

Heath broken to hear we failed in an attempt to bring Gourcuff to the club. Any update on injures?

Rico do you think the lack of discipline has something to do with Arsene management method then? I think a manager cannot control the human reaction on the pitch? Human behaviours can be altered through counseling which I am sure Arsenal management are aware of, but that doesn’t mean all people respond to such counseling. So are Arsenal players the only ones who show strong or stupid reaction and not others? It’s a good question. The answer however is not conclusive. If you believe in pure statistic then maybe it’s true Arsenal have the most sending off in the premier league last season and maybe others. However, if you go to analyse these stats to come with a more believable story you come to another conclusion. for example, last season I watched [which is rare for me] ManU in about 10 matches live and what I saw from the ref. was astonishing; 4 times in those matches they should have 5 players sent off. I think you remember Vidic got away with a sending off 3 times; against Wolves, Arsenal twice; Ferdinand against Arsenal, Neville. They were all clear sending off but they all got away with it. had they had been sent off their disciplinary record could have, well, I don’t know.

At the same time, Arsenal were unlucky in many sending off offense last season; I remember Kos, Song’s.

SYG, were you tucking into a bag of roasted peanuts while all this was unfolding at Highbury by any chance.

Micko – What the Stevie Williams thing with David O’Leary I mentioned earlier or the two 0-2 reverses against Alan Curtis’ Swansea?

The last time I had roasted peanuts at a match was Newcastle 2-0 Arsenal in 1975 or 76 I think. I also once had them at a Sheff Wed 1-2 Santos in 1971 or 72.

I remember taking my lad to Hillsborough to see us draw 1-1 and buying my lad a cup of Oxo/Bovril. He turned his nose up and stated: “What’s this, gravy?”

– Rico

Just watched it now, he played well. So did ox. Impressive stuff.
Micko, you watching the game tonight?

SYG, i’ve got a good memory but its short, a lot of the games i went to are just a blur now altho I do have all the programmes in the loft, I dunno how you do it.
I’ll have to rack your brains from time to time.

Hi all.good read rico.if walcott avoids injury he’ll score 20+ goals this season.he already has 3 in 5 games.Matt Law has said that Terry thinks wally should be our main striker after hitting 4 in training.

Regarding marquee signings maybe by the end of the season Ryo/oxo will prove to be good enough.they may be the ‘x factor’ to our season.also if diaby can get over his injuries and have his brain and feet in sync he can be pretty damn good.Laurent Blanc said so long as diaby is fit he is guaranteed to play at the Euro012 in Poland.to be good enough.they may be the ‘x factor’ to our season.also if diaby can get over his injuries and have his brain and feet in sync he can be pretty damn good.Laurent Blanc said so long as diaby is fit he is guaranteed to play at the Euro012 in Poland.

I agree Micko.wally can be brilliant one minute and rubbish the next but he always scores.he may not have the technical ability of messi but he has devastating movement off the ball.i liked how he and Gervinho were switching flanks to create a fluid attack.if they can string several games together they’ll be devastating up front.what they lacked was enough ammo from midfield,now we have arteta/returning jack/benayoun they’ll bang ’em in for fun.scores.he may not have the technical ability of messi but he has devastating movement off the ball.i liked how he and Gervinho were switching flanks to create a fluid attack.if they can string several games together they’ll be devastating up front.what they lacked was enough ammo from midfield,now we have arteta/returning jack/benayoun they’ll bang ’em in for fun.

I have always believed that the most dangerous players in the world have excellent off the ball movement.wally is one of them.thats why the invincibles were pretty damn good.it also seems to me that arsene is going to make us more direct this year.our flanks wally/sagna and santos/Gervinho will be very dynamic this year.all we need is to sort out our midfield combinations and we’ll surprise ’em all.

I read somewhere this morning in the media that mertsacker is a cheap jagielka 😮 …i was like WTF?mertsacker at 26 has 75 caps for a team that is always in the semis/finals of major international competitions.jagielka is approaching 30 and has barely played for England.if mertsacker had cost £25mil they’d be saying he is one of the best buys.quality isn’t always related to price and i for one can’t wait to prove them wrong.

Our No. 9 don’t half resemble Bruce Lee !
I hope he’s as good as the Mancs’ Korean.

Im more curious how we’ll use Park.

Rico if we had signed götze/hazard the media would cream in their pants but immediately they fail to adapt wenger would get crucified for relying on youth again.now we sign experienced players they are crucifying wenger for not buying the aforementioned marquee players.having AA/Benayoun will ensure ryo/oxo won’t be thrown in the deep end but will still play.who knows they may end up ensuring we don’t need to splash out on either götze/hazard.the signing of arteta will also give ramsey some breathing space.

Wally is theo rico 😉

First thing up is to accumulate points with what he thinks is our best 11 and keep with it and rotate 1 or 2 players as and when and not use wholesale rotation like in the League Cup. Know your team.

If we gather momentum we are quite capable of turning over Liverpool at Anfield and United at the Emirates, which is points-wise, mathematically a better outcome than we had against both clubs last year.

I think we’ll see our best team against Borussia Dortmund when the likes of Gerv/song will be clear to play.i’ll watch keenly how our wingplay gerv/santos and sagna/walcott will work out.

Park celebrates Arsenal move with a hattrick…i like it 😉

Rico, I bumped into robert pires outside the ground last season after the west ham game i think it was, it was the time he was training with us, i was so used to seeing him running with his head down that i didn’t realise he was so tall,he hung about for around 10 minutes with a rather nice lady and a couple of heavies before being picked up in a land rover, I know its only a bit of useless information but you did start it.

miquel is 6 feet 4 i didnt know that…….against liverpool he looked max 6….
thanks for the info rico…:D

Steve, I think it is safe to say that he has played his last game for, trophy…..that rings a bell.

You know what they say about blokes with big feet rico

Until 31th december (including), we can got 45 points. If on the 1st January we can have more then 35 points and close the 40, we can figth for the title.

There is nothing I would like to see more, than us giving swansea a double digit beating, a beating so bad that the media calls into question our morality for not stopping. But that won’y happen. I’d be happy with just the 3 points.

He’ll come back rico his an old Gooner a bit touchy but that has happened to a lot of supporters this wndow, but as you rightly said time to get behind the team, and hopefully lift supporters spirits enough to make The Ems a fortress again.

Lets give them a damn good thrashing, they don’t like it up them, that has to be wengers team talk before sending them out.

– Micko

I remember it well, was so frustrating knowing we could put cricket scores up, but failing to do so!

Are you heading to the match tonight?

Yeah, I’m ryanairs best customer, if we don’t get 3 points i’ll be looking for a refund……….

I sure Ryanair would more than oblige you! Considering we missed our flight out of london after the emirates cup and they wanted to charge us £380 for a flight the next day!

Daylight robbery, thats out of order, there basically just a flying bus really aren’t they.
It works out really well for me.

They’re scumbags, I would say more like a flying shop! They are constantly peddling their wares.

What time does the England game kick off? Is it on BBC by any chance?

ESP sky sports now

Cheers Steve, I am also off, later everyone.

Will, you out there son,